Mary Jo White

The outcome of the SEC’s review of the no-action letter process and the deference given to the SEC no-action process in the anticipated Wal-Mart decision will likely shape the proxy seasons for years to come.

The nomination of Loretta Lynch as the new Attorney General was, in many ways, a historic one. But it’ll likely be viewed as a noncontroversial choice, as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York has garnered positive comments from members of both major political parties.

The SEC targeted 28 officers, directors or major shareholders, charging them with violating federal security laws that require them to report information about stock holdings and transactions in a timely fashion.

Securities class actions as a whole may be down in the first half of 2014, but one particular area of securities class actions may be seeing the beginning of a new trend — suits over high-frequency trading.